by Susan Palmes-Dennis
ABOUT 40 doubles teams joined the Crews Badminton Tournament Winter Classic for competitive and recreational players last Dec. 14 to 15.
Sponsored by the Crews Recreation Center, the tournament drew players from
from badminton clubs like Charlotte Badminton Club, Marion Diehl Badminton Players, Crews Rec Center Badminton Players and Hataw Pinoy Players in Charlotte, North Carolina.
There were also badminton participants from Greenville, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina. The tournament is organized by Brian Dlugosz, athletic director of the Crews Rec Center.
The badminton participants supported the various fund raisers of the Hataw Pinoy group by participating during the T-shirt and food sales, and donating old clothes, canned goods, toiletries and assorted basic necessities during the fund drive.
The Crews Badminton Tournament Winter Classic held from 8am to 8pm featured events like the Womens Doubles, Mens Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Recreational Doubles.
The winners in the women's doubles were Jane Lee and Kate Liu while second place went to Aleth Cababa and Weimin Vasudeva
In the men's doubles the winners were John Acebu and Abhay Qureshi while Bernard Lai and Yusuke Yamazaki settled for second place.
Acebu also won in mixed doubles with partner Jane Lee while their rivals Siddharth Batavia and Samaneh Zamania landed second place.
The Recreational Doubles was won by Larry Huelsman and Balaji Viswanath while Richard Ramos and Hazel Pamintuan settled for second place.
Serve n Play, a badminton vendor in the Raleigh, North Carolina area sponsored a raffle draw for the benefit of the victims of the Typhoon Haiyan.
Serve and Play donated the proceeds of the raffle draw to the Glance Foundation Inc. and the Hataw Pinoy group for the victims of supertyphoon Haiyan.
Jha Yabes won the grand prize draw of a Yonex Nanoray Z-Speed while consolation prizes were issued to the following: Leilani Yap, Yonex Arcsaber racket: Herminia Ferreras, Yonex Towel; Angel Ferreras, Yonex Towel: Jason Yingwu Teng, Yonex towel.
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